On the Road<\/em>: \u201cI didn\u2019t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.\u201d<\/p>\nCelebrity gossip has always been something I enjoyed. I fondly remember the days before in-flight Wi-Fi, when I\u2019d buy copies of the latest issues of US Weekly, Star,<\/em> and OK<\/em> at Hudson News before boarding every plane. Looking back, it was almost an innocent time for celebrity gossip as a medium. It was printed, once a week, with blurry supporting photographs (or pristine glossy images that were obviously provided by a conspiring publicist.) The subject matter was often the same as it is now: divorce, drugs, kids, innocent shopping in Beverly Hills. But wow, have times changed. The celebrity gossip business is booming, and between the rise of social media and stan culture and our overall desperation to escape the current goings-on, we\u2019ve entered an over-information zone that feels precarious and makes even me look in the mirror and say, \u201cGet a life.\u201d<\/p>\nDeuxMoi, the crowd-sourced Instagram page that has ruined every good restaurant by identifying which celebs have been seen there, should bear a lot of the blame. Good luck even looking inside Via Carota or Giorgio Baldi. The account\u2019s \u201cSunday Spotted\u201d is a recurring Instagram Story feature that posts anonymous people’s celeb sightings, no matter how minute they might seem. If Bradley Cooper walks his dog with a Pearl Jam mesh hat on, it will be reported here. DeuxMoi\u2019s founder is somewhat anonymous (although you can find her with minimal internet sleuthing) and she is making a fortune. Merchandise, books, an upcoming TV show. But that\u2019s to be expected. Trivial yet distracting intel on famous people\u2014even Brianna Chickenfry-level famous people\u2014is big business. And with Donald Trump back in office, that\u2019s one thing that\u2019s unlikely to change. If the tone of the non-Trump-supporting public\u2019s reaction to the election over the last week or so is any indication, we are about to become an escape-seeking culture like never before. The days of breathwork, yoga, meditation, kombucha, and early bedtimes are waning. I expect to see a rise in shopping, drug use, general reckless behavior, and\u2014of course\u2014gossip.<\/p>\n
But this story, which I have followed since it broke, has done something I previously wouldn\u2019t have thought was possible. It\u2019s made me feel guilty about consuming celebrity gossip for the first time. It isn\u2019t really funny or that salacious. If I were Zach Bryan, I wouldn\u2019t want my girlfriend singing Morgan Wallen songs in my house either, but it\u2019s all just profoundly uncool. The Portnoy of it all gives it a real stink. People want to escape, me included, but there has to be a better way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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